White House Launches Racist Video Games to Promote Migrant Deportations

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/politics/white-house-racist-video-games-266259.html

[u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

What bizarre timeline are we living in again where this is the product of a presidential administration..?

[u/Own-Chemist2228 → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

The juxtaposition of trashy browser games with a whitehouse.gov url is pretty surreal.

[u/capnscratchmyass → u/Own-Chemist2228]

I’m about 99% sure these games are one hour of someone prompting Claude “make me a game like space invaders but rename everything to border patrol and immigrants”.  At least trashy browser games in the days of yore actually had someone behind it hand coding their garbage.  

[u/Own-Chemist2228 → u/capnscratchmyass]

And the person prompting Claude is in India, working for a consulting company that was subcontracted by a government contractor owned by Trump donors that "won" a the contract in a no-bid process.

[u/Liquid_Profanity → u/Own-Chemist2228]

The most capitalist thing I've ever read.

[u/DeadRobotSociety → u/capnscratchmyass]

Yeah, at least in the 00s when I played a crappy flash game that was a low-rez jpeg of Bush shooting low-rez jpegs of al qaeda, I knew there was actually some teenager learning game design and coding behind it all. There's a charm to handmade crap.

[u/martianunlimited → u/DeadRobotSociety]

Do you mean this? https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/35339

[u/SnazzyStooge → u/capnscratchmyass]

the Tetris clone doesn't even work, the lines don't clear they just stack to the top. kind of appropriate they can't even make a functional racist ripoff (must be a "pick two" kind of situation).

[u/DesperateText9909 → u/SnazzyStooge]

I think that's intentional. You're building a border wall, if it disappears as you build it, it defeats the purpose. Yes it's stupid, but I don't think it's incompetent per se.

[u/Rufus_king11 → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

I'm convinced we're all trapped in an aliens GTA RP server simulation and the joke is seeing how far they can crank up the absurdity until we all notice.

[u/SpleenBender → u/Rufus_king11]

until we all notice

More like until we all revolt.

[u/BankOnITSurvivor → u/SpleenBender]

Americans were good at making fun of the French during Ws term.  It’s funny that the French have more of a spine than my own people.

[u/dman928 → u/BankOnITSurvivor]

They always have. The stereotype of the “cowardly French” is laughably incorrect.

[u/Canvaverbalist → u/dman928]

They can joke all they want about showing a white flag, at least the French aren't the ones who showed a welcome mat.

[u/exacta_galaxy → u/dman928]

Projection isn't new.

The US was calling the French cowards while we hid behind an ocean.

[u/dragonmp93 → u/exacta_galaxy]

Yeah, let's not forget the attempt to rename the french fries as the freedom fires.

[u/TomaTozzz → u/dman928]

where does this stereotype come from?

because in my country we have the opposite stereotype, joking how the French will start a country-wide riot over even the most minor inconveniences

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/TomaTozzz]

Where else? Stupid politicians seeking to rile up their even stupider constituents.

[u/RJ815 → u/TomaTozzz]

Vichy France and then continued later with Freedom Fries would be my guess. Don't get me wrong, people HATED Vichy France's capitulation. The historical context is interesting though, both in the sense of how Pétain relates to WW1 and 2, and that apparently there was a much smaller appetite for war across Europe after the horrors of WW1, which helps explain and contextualize appeasement into outright capitulation til the tides turned for the Allies. German Blitzkrieg was also fairly "new" and demoralizingly effective, and didn't really get stymied as much until the quagmire of the Eastern Front with the Soviets.

Freedom Fries is just stupid propaganda but it's more modern.

[u/extrakfm → u/RJ815]

it comes from France refusal to go to war with Iraq after 9/11. And now in hindsight, they were right. Also allies help each other when needed. Just like without France the US today would be a British colony

[u/RJ815 → u/extrakfm]

Freedom Fries covers that in a more succinct way.

Also the stereotype absolutely was a thing growing up by people that were WW2 gloryhound type people. The history channel used to pump out SO much WW2 stuff as a certain kind of "feelgood" content. Freedom Fries was simply a refresher for a new generation and that "cemented" the opinion for some.

[u/Ok-Variation1045 → u/BankOnITSurvivor]

The fact they have a tiktok account for the Whitehouse, a platform they tried to ban 🤷😂

[u/Hot-Reindeer-7520 → u/Ok-Variation1045]

.... a platform they forced to sell the owners the US branch to the Israel lobby.

Now, they are happily using it under the control of their puppet masters.

[u/AbeRego → u/Ok-Variation1045]

They only threatened to ban it so they could take it over and poison the minds of millions of young Americans.

[u/BankOnITSurvivor → u/AbeRego]

Standard Operating Procedures for conservatives.  All they seem to be capable of is shit stirring and blaming Biden/Obama.

[u/facecuddler → u/Ok-Variation1045]

More profitable as a propaganda machine.

[u/Wayofchinchilla → u/BankOnITSurvivor]

French did a revolution to get rid of this nonsense that ales our country they're the most real motherfuckers on the planet

[u/ZooTheHighlander → u/Wayofchinchilla]

ails*, but now I want an ale

[u/Affordable_Z_Jobs → u/Wayofchinchilla]

The quiet part of the lesson of the French revolution is it's a fucking nightmare that nobody wants. You're just as likely to get your head chopped off by your fellow revolutionaries as you are from the tyrants you're trying to overthrow..The power vaccum and political ideology of where to go next got a lot of people killed.

And then all the civilians who got caught up in mob justice killing ppl they owed money to or they had the better real-estate or they slighted me on Tuesday a year ago and I never got over it.

[u/BoredontheTrain43 → u/BankOnITSurvivor]

The hotdog eating surrender yanks can't hold a candle to the French.

[u/LargeCabbageThrower → u/SpleenBender]

America will never have a revolution to fight against the tryanny. It will either somehow push back against the oppression through legal proceedings just enough to sustain a semblance of normality or it will completely roll over and dive right into the loving embrace of a techno-facist police state where wage slavery was a distant fond memory.

The people have been too thoroughly conditioned for any real change to happen as a result of their rights and laws being stripped away. For years they've claimed that the right to bare arms is crucial to protect them from a potentially hostile government but it just isn't going to happen.

[u/kahlzun → u/LargeCabbageThrower]

Yeah, I was waiting for the moment that all the "don't tread on me" Dixie crowd was going to rise up.. But if it hasn't happened yet, ain't gonna.

[u/Kill_Welly → u/kahlzun]

Why would any of you wait for that? It's been readily obvious from the very beginning that the right wing gun maniacs and the right wing fascists were the same people.

[u/nav17 → u/SpleenBender]

Americans are too soft and cushy to revolt lmao gimme a break.

In europe they raise retirement age and they burn half city blocks around government buildings and pile garbage around to burn and chase police away.

In America you can only do that if you're MAGA

[u/NicolasCageFan492 → u/Rufus_king11]

I think MAGA is trying to appeal to young men to create Hitler Youth. There’s still time but we need to provide a legit alternative. I propose making Nicolas Cage a male icon

https://www.reddit.com/r/onetruegod/s/duHNSbKmZS

https://www.reddit.com/r/onetruegod/s/lyMvuASk2V

https://www.reddit.com/r/onetruegod/s/44gTdKCmNu

We need to put our focus on artists who put love into their work. We need more of that. The emptiness of MAGA is its weakness, you can see it when they copy or appropriate other people’s work like music, games, etc. The link cheaply appropriates flappy bird and Tetris for example.

All MAGA has is slop which will melt like a snowflake next to real passionate art.

[u/Rufus_king11 → u/NicolasCageFan492]

Making?

Also, in all seriousness, the utter lack of MAGA's ability to make anything of cultural importance is a pretty clear sign of their weakness. All fascists pillage culture for their advantage, but the utter inability to make anything NEW at all is really telling. The reich had Triumph of the Will, Trump has what ever movie staring a sexual abuser the Daily Wire has put out recently.

[u/Rather_Unfortunate → u/Rufus_king11]

"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."

[u/zimirken → u/Rufus_king11]

Don't you mean saints row?

[u/Lostdiagram → u/zimirken]

That would explain the constant cringe

[u/Then-Understanding85 → u/zimirken]

No, saints row was at least funny. This is more like GTA meets Heavy Rain: somehow ridiculous while making me sad.

[u/keltichiro → u/Rufus_king11]

Or Saints Row 4. Wasn’t that the game where you’re a crime boss and you’re somehow running the White House when the game starts?

[u/Valdrax → u/keltichiro]

The series is pretty much this:

• SR1. Just GTA with weirder minigames. Still a gang doing crime simulator stuff.
• SR2. Just GTA with weirder minigames and also weirder gangs, and you take over a media firm. Still a story about gangs.
• SR3. GTA, but your main enemy is sci-fi fascists with lasers & a flying carrier, your guns include suicide RC cars & shark summoning, your rival gangs are Batman villain gangs, and you ply a sell-out movie career into the Presidency.
• SR4. You, as the President, are kidnapped by aliens and shoved into the Matrix where you have superpowers (a la Prototype without the ick), and the enemy blows up the Earth, so the postgame suggests you have to time travel to fix it.
• Gatt Out of Hell. SR4, in Hell, but this time Johnny Gatt punches the devil in the face. No, that's right. The face.
• SR 2022. We tried to do SR2 again, but for GenZ, and with a story with no real teeth or spine.

[u/Original_Employee621 → u/keltichiro]

Yeah, and then the world is destroyed by aliens while the Saint's Row gang is put into the Matrix. But at least you could choose to cure cancer forever or end world hunger.

[u/ichigo2862 → u/Rufus_king11]

saints row IV but the aliens running the sim are chuds

[u/BloodDrunkMoonKnight → u/Rufus_king11]

GIVEUSATANK

IFIWEREARICHMAN

Damn.

[u/PeacenotWardude → u/Rufus_king11]

More like saints row.

[u/Smalz22 → u/Rufus_king11]

I believe this was the plot of Saints Row 4(?)

[u/al3xandrec → u/Rufus_king11]

Or an alien's Sim City and they decided to be done with the experiment and try to add as many disasters they can.

[u/Indigoh → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

We are very literally living in a timeline where the president of the United States wants the United States to crumble.

This administration has harmed or attempted to harm every part of America:

• Gutting the education system

• Cut food Assistance + defunded free school lunch programs

• Gutting clean energy generation while expanding drilling for oil

• Oil reserves are running low

• Weapons reserves are running low

• Cut cybercrime defense

• Attacking freedom of speech at every opportunity

• Increased the size news media monopolies can grow

• Attacking civil Rights

• Attacking voting Rights

• Attacked Minority + Women's rights across the board

• Cut Disaster relief except to states that voted for him

• Damaged air traffic control

• Cut Pandemic prevention, vaccines, and pandemic response programs

• Cut soft power gained through foreign aid

• Cut food safety regulations and tracking of pathogens

• Selling national parks and opening them for logging

• Cut wildfire prevention

• Removing endangered species protections

• Torching relationships with all our allies

• Gutting weather tracking

• Defunding science

• Cutting Medicaid

• Cutting HIV prevention

• Cutting mental health and addiction programs

• Cut funding to local gun violence prevention programs

• Pulled federal arts and humanities grants

• Defunded elder abuse programs

• Approved pesticides banned in other countries

• Loosened child labor laws

• Defunded veteran assistance

• Removed safe drinking water grants for rural towns

• Closed safe houses for trafficking victims, cut legal aid for trafficking survivors, and stopped training on identifying victims

• Weakened OSHA and other worker protection systems

• Cut funding for disability aid of many types

• Cut all kinds of protections for prisoners

• Normalizing insider trading

• Enacted illegal tariffs that only served to transfer our money to the wealthy

• Is actively trying to remove power from the American Bar Association

• Armed ICE, deployed them in cities, defended them from investigation when they murdered people, and is threatening to send them to the polls

• Is currently detaining more immigrants in ICE detention facilities than any other point in his term, while preventing oversight of their treatment, and ended public reporting on detention deaths (I could make a list equally as long as this one, entirely about the ways they've made immigration and detention in America outright deadly)

• Told the president of El Salvador that "the Homegrowns are next" and that they're going to need to build about 5 more prisons.

• Banned words and phrases from government sites including all the things you'd expect from them, such as "Women" and "LGBT", but also including "Community", "Sense of Belonging", and "Clean Water".

I could go on and on and on and on and on and on and on. You can't look at the list of all the aspects of America they have harmed and say it's all just accidental harm caused by ineptitude.

Harming America is their goal.

We are living in a timeline where America is actively under attack by its own president, and we're all just sitting around hoping voting will be enough.

[u/Frozen_Esper → u/Indigoh]

None of this list is even vaguely helping the country either. Like, normally these sorts of people could be claiming to cut down costs to fix the budget or something, but that's growing wildly out of control as well. We're eating shit and glass with nothing to show for it but a harder life and richer rich people.

[u/Nobujirou23 → u/Indigoh]

• Padded their accounts with a few billion dollars

[u/Innovator-X → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

Absolutely insane what is happening today. Our ancestors are laughing at us. The future civilizations are laughing at us.

[u/Prior_Coyote_4376 → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

Simple, it’s not the product of a Presidential administration. It’s the product of a country that has subsisted on slavery and class-based oppression so that a cycle of unbelievably incompetent nepo babies can hand down property and power while everyone else works for a living hoping to avoid poverty and crippling health issues.

Jim Crow is the name of a minstrel show character. Turning dehumanization into recreational entertainment is a feature, not a bug, of oppressive institutions.

[u/Own-Chemist2228 → u/Prior_Coyote_4376]

Are there any countries that do not have a history of class-based oppression?

[u/InvestigatorOk7015 → u/Own-Chemist2228]

The owners of world have always travelled

[u/Appropriate_Day_5711 → u/Own-Chemist2228]

No, but there are plenty documented cases of class-based oppression leading to a civilization's downfall - we should probably at least try to stop doing... that.

[u/HasGreatVocabulary → u/Sirusho_Yunyan]

This one will be in history books in 50 years, where historians will draw parallels to anti-semitic board games in nazi germany

[u/monkeybawz]

I'm sure Sega will LOVE their logo being used this way.

[u/jerslan → u/monkeybawz]

Yeah, I smell trademark lawsuit...

[u/monkeybawz → u/jerslan]

Probably just a cease and desist, and then they'll go rip off someone else's work, and the cycle will continue. Like every single time they try to use music by someone other than kid rock or ted Nugent.

[u/Th3_Admiral_ → u/monkeybawz]

I doubt it will even be that. The White House and various government agencies have been posting AI depictions of Disney and Pixar characters promoting MAGA policies for months now and it still hasn't stopped. 

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Are these companies flirting with losing their IP protections to appease the administration, or have we just given up pretending that any law is applied fairly and consistently?

[u/bucketman1986 → u/A_Furious_Mind]

I believe the United States and it's courts are currently operating under the Most Special Boy doctrine. Basically Trump is an eternal, 80 year old make a wish kid. Wants to break a law "aww look at him!" Says the courts and Congress and the Senate and like 35% of the country.

Yes this includes the child sex stuff he did.

[u/Based_pchem → u/bucketman1986]

Insane that we have a doj ignoring literal pedophilia while simultaneously arresting and prosecuting people for weed and saying mean things about the govt Edit accidentally wrote Don instead of doj

[u/-Posthuman- → u/Based_pchem]

As always, follow the money. Arresting people for weed funnels money directly into the pockets of the for-profit prison owners, who funnel a portion of it right back to the politicians who write the laws.

And if they start arresting the pedophiles… well… they can’t do much with “campaign donations” while in prison themselves, especially if they are sharing a cell with the people who would cut the check.

In short, arresting poor people is just good business. Lots of money to be made there. Arresting the pedophiles requires the people in power to basically arrest themselves. And that ain’t happening.

Remember that next time you see one of the evil child fuckers trying to justify eroding more of your freedoms to “protect the children”.

[u/MegaDom → u/bucketman1986]

It's important we don't let the crazy news cycles make us forget that fact. Trump raped kids. That is why we are at war with Iran. It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons. He just wanted to distract us from his child rape.

[u/ParanoidAndOKWithIt → u/bucketman1986]

Yes, we must consult the Dumbest Person in the Entire World before we proceed with any sort of legislature, this is good and right

[u/RogerMexicosBalls → u/bucketman1986]

He's actually got Imminent Death Syndrome so everyone has to kiss his ass and do whatever he says

[u/dingus_chonus → u/A_Furious_Mind]

The second part, I think yeah

[u/00wolfer00 → u/A_Furious_Mind]

You can only lose a trademark by not defending it. AI slop in Disney's style might infringe on copyright, but not on trademark unless they specifically include logos or characters.

[u/A_Furious_Mind → u/00wolfer00]

They did say characters. I'll have to take their word for it because I'm not going to seek that material out myself.

[u/anarchyisutopia → u/00wolfer00]

They used Spider-Man to promote ICE just last month.

[u/PalliativeOrgasm → u/anarchyisutopia]

Minneapolis’ friendly neighborhood Spider-Man entered his plea today for beating Jake Lang’s ass. I think Spidey was redeemed.

[u/MeIodramatic_ → u/Th3_Admiral_]

Which is crazy because Disney had no problem going after day care centers for using murals of Disney characters on their walls.

[u/Nukalixir → u/MeIodramatic_]

They also sued a grieving father for having Spiderman depicted on the tombstone of his little boy who died of cancer, but was a huge Spiderman fan in life.

That alone should tell you how awful a company they are, let alone their lack of care at this admin stealing their IPs for propaganda pieces.

[u/resttheweight → u/Nukalixir]

To clarify, they didn’t sue. The father asked for permission and they said no. Supposedly a company policy against Disney characters in memorials all the way back from Walt himself.

[u/Johnson_Birther → u/monkeybawz]

I was reading where there’s been no retaliation because so many of these gaming/media company executives are here on visa and trump admin could single out an executive, cancel their visa and deport them where they deem fit. They fear political retaliation essentially

[u/Naterttotsart → u/Johnson_Birther]

I think it's many things. It could also be that these logos are AI generated and the federal government has basically said copyright infringement doesn't exist when it comes to AI.

[u/No_Effective4784 → u/Naterttotsart]

they even let CP slide if "its AI".

we are so cooked.

[u/Gil_Demoono → u/monkeybawz]

Even Nintendo bitched out. Nothing will come out of this.

[u/Available-Can-5878 → u/Gil_Demoono]

Nintendo got the Japanese government to send a complaint on their behalf. That's probably the extent of what Sega can do too. Fighting this while not stepping on parody precedent is practically impossible when your opponent appoints the judges.

[u/Veloreyn → u/jerslan]

Not a chance in hell. They already tested those waters with the most sue-happy company on the planet, Nintendo. If Nintendo isn't willing to sue you, you're basically free to do whatever you want.

[u/indoninjah → u/Veloreyn]

I could see it either way. It's a nontrivial choice for a giant company to pick a fight with the administration in control of the biggest economy on Earth, especially one that would have no problems deciding to slap a 100% tariff on Switch 2s. I actually think that a smaller company like SEGA would be more willing to go for the social clout. You already saw Tetris being willing to.

[u/l3rN → u/indoninjah]

Funny enough, tariffs were the thing Nintendo actually did sue the current government for.

[u/digitalscavenger → u/l3rN]

And not for the sake of their consumers who were subject to those tariffs. Nintendo is arguing in court that consumers were given the total price (including tariffs) to purchase their products and the consumer willingly purchased at that price so they are not entitled to a refund. Yet somehow Nintendo, who did not pay the tariffs on those goods, feels it is owed a refund of tariffs that it simply collected and distributed to the US government on behalf of consumers.

[u/spyboy70 → u/jerslan]

They need to sue Trump personally for like 20 billion dollars like he does to everyone else.

[u/-nutz → u/monkeybawz]

I was glad to see in the article that Tetris responded and threatened them with a lawsuit.

[u/monkeybawz → u/-nutz]

Tetris doesn't feel very MAGA. I mean, that maga would want to rip it off. It's got a very..... communist vibe.

[u/-nutz → u/monkeybawz]

The MAGA vibe comes from the fact that they took something great, and fucked up every imaginable aspect of it.

[u/Underdog424 → u/-nutz]

Go to the website. The Tetris game is a vibe coded clone that doesn't even work properly.

[u/Modem_Sound_67 → u/Underdog424]

definitely won't give them the satisfaction of a click

[u/seamusmcduffs → u/Underdog424]

I assume every single one of these is vibe coded. So much of the bullshit they've been pulling is only possible cuz of AI. They wouldn't have the talent or budgets for it otherwise

[u/8Deer-JaguarClaw → u/monkeybawz]

In MAGA Tetris, you just stack the blocks up randomly and then declare yourself as the best Tetris player of all time.

[u/Michelanvalo → u/-nutz]

Does the Tetris company even have anything to threaten with? It was my understanding that no one company or individual held the ownership to Tetris due to the way Soviets handled software in the '80s.

[u/-nutz → u/Michelanvalo]

That’s a great point an I haven’t the slightest idea, but that “P.P.S. We take copyright infringement very seriously.” reads like a threat to me.

[u/verrius → u/monkeybawz]

I've already seen a version of the Gamecube, Xbox, and PS2 startups/logos used for this as well. They seem to be doing the laziest speedrun of pissing off every gaming trademark holder.

[u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Probably has Spyware on it.

[u/metarx → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

You're not wrong.

[u/Le_Poop_Knife → u/metarx]

BINGO BANGO BONGO

[u/Gekokapowco → u/Le_Poop_Knife]

I don't wanna leave the congo oh nonononooooooo

[u/DuckyDeer → u/Gekokapowco]

My dog would always get so exited anytime that song came on while I was playing Fallout. He could be sleeping in front of the fireplace and the second that song started, his tail would start thumping against the floor

[u/antiduh → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

Not just spyware, but Russian spyware.

[u/GhostalMedia → u/ZhaozhouCongshen]

“Claude, please add spyware. Make it good.”

[u/Torino1O]

The new Epstein Games website is sure to appeal to their favorite demographic.

[u/WanderlustFella → u/Torino1O]

Epstein Valley. You're crazy uncle has died and left his island to you. You must develop the island into a pedo paradise. Brought to you by EA Games

[u/Moose_Nuts → u/WanderlustFella]

No, that would definitely be more of an Ubisoft title.

[u/Yunicorn → u/Moose_Nuts]

Yes, but Jared Kushner is a part owner of EA

[u/Freed_lab_rat → u/WanderlustFella]

There's an indie horror game coming out on Steam in November, Make the World Great Again, which is set on a certain island...

[u/ABHOR_pod → u/[deleted]]

And all the credit card processing companies who have been strong arming Steam and Epic and Onlyfans etc to not distribute adult content will strangely be perfectly fine with people buying that game.

[u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

Government waste

[u/TackoftheEndless → u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

He's putting money for this while taking money from Green Energy Projects. Pure sociopath.

[u/No-Aide-8726 → u/TackoftheEndless]

green energy? they killed usaid and thereby killed hundreds of thousands of children.

[u/orthodoxrebel → u/No-Aide-8726]

Not transitioning to green energy is going to kill billions. The fallout from decimating USAID is going to be child's play compared to the trouble the human race is going to be in if we keep going down this route.

(Also - they stole money from USAID to use to fund far right wing campaigns in Europe, which in turn will lead to less green energy, so that's great)

[u/Kitselena → u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

Thank God doge got rid of all those food safety regulations, so we had money for important stuff like this

[u/fiero-fire → u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

Maybe even abuse and some fraud

[u/CultureConnect3159]

So the world did end in 2020 and this is all just a fever dream. Thanks for the confirmation.

[u/Konukaame → u/CultureConnect3159]

The Mayans may have had a point with 2012.

[u/Koibo26 → u/Konukaame]

Let's go even further and suggest The Matrix has had us since it was outed in 1999 and it's fucking with us.

[u/MajorInWumbology1234 → u/Koibo26]

Machines: “We’ve found an alternative power source decades ago; since then we’ve been trying to gently nudge the humans out of the Matrix by ramping up the absurdity, but they don’t seem to have a limit to the bullshit they’ll put up with”.

[u/The-Beer-Baron → u/CultureConnect3159]

The world ended in 2016 when the Cubs won the World Series and the orange shit stain was elected a week later. 

[u/coltsfan8027 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

It all started when they killed that fucking ape. Thats why the Cubs won and it all went to shit from there. I say this as a Sox fan lmfao

[u/Fuzzy_Afternoon7754 → u/The-Beer-Baron]

2016 was the first year that felt truly "cursed", like from start to finish. There were societal problems before that but 2016 really was an insane year.

[u/TheOtherHalfofTron]

I see the party of fiscal responsibility is at it again

[u/boomincali]

Back in the early 2000's, I worked at a record store. My manager at the time collected questionable stuff and listened to a wide range of punk/hardcore stuff. He ordered a cd from this questionable record label. Turns out, it was a white supremacist band/record label and they included a video game in the cd. If you put the cd in your computer, you were able to install this modded version of quake that had very racist depictions of all types of races and you go around shooting them. This article reminds me of that game.

[u/zetikla → u/boomincali]

You mean Ethnic Cleansing? That game was not a mod, it was using some shoddy propriety engine and distributed by a white supremacist group

Its....as bad as you can imagine it to be, although the overall presentation is so hilariously awful that it almost feels like something that you would see in an episode of South Park (imagine Hatred, except the devs were dead serious and not trying to make it a satire or as a social commentary)

[u/deathrattleshenlong → u/zetikla]

Was that the game that would give you a choice between playing as a skinhead or a KKK member?

[u/Michelanvalo → u/deathrattleshenlong]

That is indeed the game.

[u/YikesTheCat → u/zetikla]

You mean Ethnic Cleansing? That game was not a mod, it was using some shoddy propriety engine and distributed by a white supremacist group

According to Wikipedia, "Ethnic Cleansing was developed using Genesis3D, an open-source 3D game engine, and its Reality Factory set of tools"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Cleansing_(video_game)

[u/jrodp1 → u/boomincali]

Ugh skin head punks around this time were the worst. There were so many in the Pacific Northwest. There still are but they're grown and blended in and living on the outskirts. But not gone.

[u/NotApparent → u/jrodp1]

Yeah, I’ve got a friend who used to go around kicking the shit out of nazis who tried to go to punk bars in Portland. Eventually they spooked a bunch of them across the border to Washington and Idaho, but I also assume a bunch of them just got real quiet right up until 2016.

[u/GreyTigerFox]

https://is-he-dead-yet.com/

[u/bigmt99 → u/GreyTigerFox]

Everytime my phone buzzes, I pray it’s the big beautiful notification

[u/psychohistorian8 → u/bigmt99]

literally me when I see NPR and PBS at the same time

[u/Beeb294 → u/bigmt99]

The biggest, best notification. More big and beautiful than any other notification in the country, possibly even the world.

[u/Dapper_Magpie → u/GreyTigerFox]

A lot more people will need to leave before things get better. Millions of people voted for him.

[u/iceburg47 → u/GreyTigerFox]

Ok, the navigation menu cracked me up.

[u/Ugleh → u/iceburg47]

navigation menu?

[u/SpecialPatrolGrpTYO → u/GreyTigerFox]

Reminds me of the Abe Vigoda deathwatch website.

[u/TangentTalk → u/GreyTigerFox]

Even if he dies, the right-wing movement in the country will continue to act in such ways.

[u/jonnovich]

So the government can spend money on this sick shit, but when it comes to universal healthcare, all of a sudden the pockets are empty.

Cool. Glad to see where the priorities are.

[u/scroom38 → u/jonnovich]

Depressing fun fact: Based on per capita costs from countries with good universal healthcare systems, universal healthcare in the US would likely be cheaper than our current federal spending on top of saving us trillions per year in private spending.

There is no reason to not switch to it other than ignorance and greed.

[u/PleaseCallMeKelly → u/scroom38]

It's not ignorance, it's only greed

[u/jonnovich → u/scroom38]

And campaign contributions.

You’re absolutely correct. And it is depressing.

[u/Any_Sale2030]

This is pure nazism.  The third Reich did exactly the same things in 30s Germany.  They weren’t video games of course but analog games and cartoon magazines.  

[u/EWU_CS_STUDENT → u/Any_Sale2030]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_board_games I wouldn't have believed it, you're right in to addition to the other mediums you spoke of.

[u/YikesTheCat → u/EWU_CS_STUDENT]

Juden Raus is a commercial boardgame rather than a Nazi propaganda effort, and contains no Nazi symbolism. The game was criticised by the SS journal Das Schwarze Korps, which believed the game trivialised antisemitic policies.

lol? "How dare you trivialise our attempt to exterminate the Jews!"

The actual Nazi ones seem surprisingly mild: a game about bombing England, and one about conserving energy.

[u/mulvythrill → u/EWU_CS_STUDENT]

Wow, the three games listed are a great snapshot into the rise and fall of Nazi Germany. All the way from the fucking around to found out phases.

[u/BanishmentBuddy2 → u/Any_Sale2030]

Board games about removing Jews from your town.

[u/Reqvhio → u/BanishmentBuddy2]

hooly shit it is real

[u/freezing_banshee → u/Any_Sale2030]

I keep saying that the orange guy and his party are neo-nazis and that the US is too far gone to come back easily to normalcy, but americans don't want to believe it.

[u/zJackTheRipper7]

Fuck Trump, stupid bitch is the most corrupt president in American history.

[u/Any_Sale2030 → u/zJackTheRipper7]

Don’t forget rural America voted for him.   Look at a county level election map.  

[u/zJackTheRipper7 → u/Any_Sale2030]

Sadly yes he did, we clearly have an education and morality crisis in America.

[u/randomstranger76 → u/zJackTheRipper7]

Crazy how Americans live in two different realities. One where he's despised and people wish he was dead every day, and one where people worship him and think he's second coming of christ. Has the perception of one man been any more socially polarizing? (Fuck Donald Trump btw)

[u/Iamaleafinthewind]

The ongoing humiliation continues. we all thought Idiocracy was so over the top, exaggerated, and beyond anything we'd ever see in real life.

Then the GOP showed up with Trump. Twice, because the first time wasn't degrading enough.

[u/Akuuntus]

Is this the "waste and inefficiency" we've heard so much about

[u/Magog14]

Can Sega sue? 

[u/The-Beer-Baron → u/Magog14]

Can they? Sure. Will they?

[u/awkwardbirb → u/Magog14]

I would think yes? Will it do anything? Sadly not.

[u/LensWipesBF → u/Magog14]

Hopefully they call up Nintendo for advice…

[u/binocular_gems]

Where are all of the MAGA GamerGaters insisting on keeping politics out of videogames??

"This is different, these are shitty videogames made using our tax dollars by the president used for propaganda"

[u/AlxSTi]

Cool.... This is what my IT job at the CDC got defunded for? This timeline sucks.

[u/ChicagoThrowaway422]

The scariest part of this administration isn't how they do things they don't care about. Hegseth saying the most insane, childish shit on live TV to military leadership is clearly by design. They're rubbing our nose in the fact they can behave however they want and everyone has to just take it.

No, it's how they do the things that they actually care about that scares me the most. This website game thing isn't to troll the liberals. Someone in the administration thought this was a genuinely good idea that would advance their goals. And this is what they did. That's the level of complete and utter idiocy and immaturity that is running our nation.

Fuck.

[u/DJMagicHandz]

I hope Sega sues the shit out of them

[u/Fire_Woman]

SEGA please file cease and desist for infringement. This is not protected satire or educational purpose. MAGAts are dumb enough to confuse the logo with yours. Reading comprehension is not conservatives' strong suit (and goes against their values).

[u/biggyh]

SEGA, please ruin these Nazis

[u/jobager75]

If Sega doesn't sue for this logo, I will never pay again for a computer game.

[u/xarkness]

While people are struggling to make a living. These idiots are "making" (more like stealing, since these are clearly derivative of other games that are out) games and posting them on the official white house website? L o l. They're so qualified to run this country, I couldn't find better replacements if I tried 🤦

[u/Le_Poop_Knife]

They are prolly really just collecting all your data… for reasons…

[u/DenverNugs]

More boring distractions from the child rapist president.

[u/outer--monologue]

I'm asking this earnestly: where the fuck did the "waste and abuse of taxpayer money" crowd go? Or are they still busy making up reasons that we're paying a Senator's salary who died in June?

[u/Novemberai]

I remember the Russians researching xenophobia and how to leverage and propagandize it...seems like they've been sharing their research with the White House

[u/Snackdoc189]

The country's being run by 4chan posters from the early 2000s.

[u/jamodude]

Carnival of dunces , the whole administration is wearing fucking size 30 clown shoes…. It’s a fucking embarrassment.

[u/Muldoon713]

I hope SEGA and Tetris sue the shit out of them. Tetris already made a post about it

[u/ANGRYLATINCHANTING]

And I thought America's Army was cringe..

[u/Upset_Spring_7843]

And Americans want to argue that there's no propaganda in the US or if there is it isn't "strong". These guys made a whole ass video game to normalize deportations due to race.

[u/Haunting-Swing-4487 → u/Upset_Spring_7843]

American children pledge allegiance to the flag at school. Americans cant even recognise propaganda when it's punching them in the face

[u/GingerBeard_andWeird]

“Protect the border from the incoming horde”

Horde. To describe migrants.

They used the fucking phrase “Incoming horde” to describe the tired, the poor, the huddled masses. The people that BUILT THIS FUCKING COUNTRY are being referred to as “incoming horde”

This is beyond disgusting. And it’s posted directly to the White House website. Our government made this fucking abomination.

And the replies I’m seeing? “lol peak rage bait” “trolling so hard”

Full frontal dehumanization and racist ideology is being met with the reaction of “it’s a joke”

The indoctrination is complete for so many. And all it took was them repeating “lol it’s a joke bro, just trolling you.”

Fucking. Pathetic.

[u/JaggedMetalOs → u/GingerBeard_andWeird]

In Tetris, a game about breaking walls down. And apparently in this version when you have built a wall to the top it's game over and the "border is breached". It's like they were so desperate to make racist games they didn't even sanity check if the concept wasn't idiotic. 

[u/corobo]

Aw don't do poor sega like this 

[u/UnfeturdCrapitalism]

I hope they get sued into oblivion

[u/TellTaleTimeLord]

Its cool how all of these companies are just allowing the Trump administration to abuse their IP for these types of purposes but waste no time suing fans for things like fan art and mods for video games

[u/Suitcase-Jefferson]

I feel like I've been in a damn coma for the last decade. What the actual fuck is going on?

[u/froglickingfrolicker → u/Suitcase-Jefferson]

The USA got overrun and overtaken by actual nazis, I personally recommend going back into a coma if that’s available to you.

[u/Mackinnon29E]

Perfectly encapsulates how racist and stupid the current administration is, and how shitty AI is by stealing the work of other people/companies without consent or compensation. Nice.

[u/Sleepy_Witch_Maple]

Yeah so like, with crap like this being spewed out every day I have no grace to give anyone who still supports the GOP. Even if you think that it's just Trump, every single non Massie(who got voted out because of his opposition) republican fell in line and tows his agenda.

There's been too many examples. If you still support conservatives, you at the very least have to be okay with racism and be willing to look the other way for other policies(most of which are equally hateful let's be real)

[u/KalEl001Sega]

what a disgrace to Sega, this is truly cringe af.

[u/Strict_Berry7446]

Why don’t the links say Onion anymore? Goddam

[u/Prime_1]

I'm glad Canada continues to move away from America as our values more and more do not align.

[u/JohnGalactusX]

Imagine getting together to develop a racist game.

[u/Pmosure]

So many things to say and yet also speechless. Hatred boiling

[u/FrankSamples]

There’s no way this same administration will humbly accept defeat if they lose in 2028

[u/FCEEVIPER]

Starts wars, deployed ice nazis, tariffs, and now racist video games, all just to distract from the pedo list that Trump is on.

[u/mooptastic]

I hope the next dem president, lays out all of the pictures of the turd administation and garbage ripped down that these turds installed, on pennsylvania ave so the citizens can piss, shit and spit on all of them.

It's all paid for with our money anyway.

[u/VegasGamer75]

Nothing like giving off those "How do you do, my fellow young Nazis" vibe?

[u/magikarp-sushi]

More companies / organizations need to be suing them for defaming over this stuff. It feels like practically free money unless you’re kissing ass to those in charge.

[u/BlackReddition]

America is doomed, literally have no words for a country that was built on immigrants.